Salaries for Specialists

Draft Decision

Written:May 23, 1919Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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May 23, 1919

Decisions Adopted by the C.P.C. Commission at Its
Meeting on 23.V.1919:

1.Salariesover 3,000 rubles shall be appointed by the
Board of each Commissariat, reported to the People’s Commissariats for
Labour and for State Control, and submitted to the Council of People’s
Commissars for endorsement.

2.EachPeople’s Commissariat is obliged within a week to
present a list of all employees who receive over 3,000 rubles a month.

3.EachCommissariat is obliged within a week to present a
list of leading specialists and outstanding organisers who have to be paid
over 3,000 rubles.

TheBoard of each Commissariat must declare in the case of each person
1) its assurance that he is an outstanding specialist in such-and-such a
field; 2) exactly what outstanding organising job he is doing or is capable
of doing.

4.OnJune 15 only those whose salaries have been endorsed
by the Council of People’s Commissars shall receive pay at the rate of
3,000 rubles and more.

5.Theterm within which salaries shall be endorsed by the
Council of People’s Commissars is to be fixed at not more than one week
from the date of presentation.

6.Reportsto be delivered by Lenin and Krasin.

7.Avanesovis directed not later than tomorrow, May 24, to
submit theses or principles concerning salaries of over 3,000 rubles to
non-outstanding specialists.

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